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Kuwait Summons US Diplomat Over Gay Pride Month Tweet
Kuwait’s government announced it has summoned a senior US diplomat over concerns about the US Embassy in Kuwait tweeting its support for gay pride month.
Well, this is awkward.
To mark the beginning of LGBTQ+ pride month, where a movement endorsed by every single establishment organ in western society marches to celebrate and protect its ‘rights’, the US Embassy in Kuwait didn’t hesitate to...
Kuwait Follows Trump, Imposes Muslim Visa Ban
President Trump is getting the last laugh this evening as news is starting to come out that Kuwait has instituted a visa ban from 5 countries according to Yahoo. Kuwait is a small Muslim nation located south of Iraq in the Persian Gulf.
From Yahoo:
Following the Muslim ban in the United States, Kuwait has now suspended the issuance of visas for travellers from Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and...
Kuwait pushing for entry in EU borderless Schengen Agreement
Senior officials from Kuwait’s foreign and interior ministries have ended a twoday visit to Brussels after discussions and meetings with EU officials that focused on lifting of Schengen visa for Kuwaiti citizens. Ambassador Walid Alkhobaizi, director of Europe department at Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) and Kuwait TV that they were tasked by the First Deputy Prime Minister...
Kuwaiti firm buys More London for £1.7 billion
City Hall building in central London, which St Martins, the property investment arm of the Kuwaiti government, had been considering to buy for the More London development alongside Tower Bridge.
A Kuwaiti company has reportedly bought More London, a premier real estate asset in London, for approximately 1.7 billion British pounds.
London Bridge Holdings sold More London to Kuwaiti firm St Martins Property...
Kuwaiti woman arrested in Saudi Arabia for driving sick father to hospital
A Kuwaiti woman was arrested in Saudi Arabia for driving a car while taking her diabetic father to the hospital. The arrest comes just one week after Saudi women protested the driving ban in the conservative Gulf monarchy.
The woman was driving a Chevrolet Epica with her father in the passenger seat when she was pulled over in an area located near the border with Kuwait, Saudi police told Kuwait Times...
Borat's parody anthem greets Kazakh athletes in Kuwait
Borat (played by Sacha Baron Cohen)
Kazakhstan’s shooting team was reportedly taken by surprise at a championship in Kuwait recently. Instead of their national anthem, they heard a parody version from Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial film Borat.
Judging from the YouTube video of the gaffe, the team’s reaction to hearing the English lyrics about “Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in...
US stations 15,000 troops in Kuwait
The United States is not at war with Iran yet, but just in case, the Pentagon says they want to be prepared. To do so, the Department of Defense has dispatched 15,000 troops to the neighboring nation of Kuwait.
Gen. James Mattis, the Marine Corps head that rules over the US Central Command, won approval late last year from the White House to deploy the massive surge to the tiny West Asian country...
Young Kuwaitis call for anti-government protest
The Kuwaiti emir accepted the resignation of the interior minister Sheikh Jaber Khaled al-Sabah, seen here in 2010, who quit last month over the death of a detainee allegedly as a result of police torture.
A Kuwaiti youth group called Sunday for a mass rally outside parliament on Tuesday to protest the government’s “undemocratic practices” and to press for its ouster.
The group, Fifth...